DESCRIPTION

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

This program has long history. Author of traceroute
is Van Jacobson and it first appeared in 1988. This clone is
based on a port of traceroute to IPv6 published
in NRL IPv6 distribution in 1996. In turn, it was ported
to Linux by Pedro Roque. After this it was kept in sync by
Alexey Kuznetsov
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>. And eventually entered
iputils package.

SECURITY

tracepath6 requires CAP_NET_RAWIO capability
to be executed. It is safe to be used as set-uid root.